X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-rms-personal-data-safe.git/blobdiff_plain/7ad4ba1216415c0221a67a1bdd1be8cb21db73b8..HEAD:/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md diff --git a/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md b/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md index 78b8b19..6b8f520 100644 --- a/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md +++ b/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe -================================================== +# A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe by Richard Stallman, 2018-04-03 -The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet +**The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first -place. +place.** Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of @@ -111,11 +110,12 @@ software is [controlled by its users](https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html). That user community keeps the software honest. -Richard Stallman is president of the Free -[Software](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/software) -Foundation, which launched the development of a free/libre operating -system GNU. +Richard Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation, which +launched the development of a free/libre operating system GNU. Copyright 2018 Richard Stallman. Released under [Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives License -4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). +4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). The original +English version was published in [The +Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance) +2018-04-03.